Knowing that Denmark, Sweden, and Germany are doing relatively well with @coronavirus, compare the states in the U.S. with greatest Germanic ancestry to see how they are doing (but beware other factors such as density, etc.):
https://names.mongabay.com/ancestry/st-German.html …https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2020/health/coronavirus-us-maps-and-cases/ …
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This looks much more like whoever is in charge of counting deaths in Sweden takes weekends off and leaves early on Friday.pic.twitter.com/GaHMpCed9f
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Work-life balance *and* a pretty curve. Great success!
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Sweden: 900 deaths out of 10,400 confirmed cases in a population of around 10 million. Australia: 61 deaths out of 6,357 confirmed cases in a population of 25 million.
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Sweden is also aware it might rack up more deaths in the first wave, but it is betting the overall count (after a year or two) won't be much different.
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They have not created and lived in a bubble and were exposed, their populace hence have the advantage of herd-immunity. The chances of secondary or tertiary eruptions of virus
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They have a higher per capita death rate than the USApic.twitter.com/PcZRhBytNj
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